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Ron Blackmon, the former North Central High School head football coach and athletic director, was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the South Carolina Strength Coaches Association (SCSCA) at the South Carolina High School Powerlifting Meet earlier this spring.

To honor the upcoming Olympic Games to be held in London this summer, the Montessori School of Camden's Parents Advisory Council, led by Joanna Heaton and Anne Conder, organized a mini-Olympic experience for the children.

(Recognizing the valor of South Carolinians who fought in World War II, 19 electric cooperatives joined Honor Flight of South Carolina in April to fly 100 veterans to Washington, D.C., to visit the memorial built in their honor and other historic sites. This is the first of three stories on Kershaw County veterans who served in World War II and who were part of this Honor Flight.)

When I remember the kitchen in my teenage years, I know I have a much easier life. The kitchen had a large, one sided sink, a tiny icebox, which later became an even tinier refrigerator, and an oilcloth covered table with wooden chairs. The icebox required the services of the ice man and ran over quite frequently when I did not empty it. The refrigerator was eternally in need of defrosting, since no such thing as frostless or self-defrosting refrigerator existed. I hated the one sided sink, and, since I usually had to do the dishwashing -- company or family -- knew ...

Funeral services for Eloise Wood Wright, 79, of 429 Watts Hill Road in Elgin, will be held Thursday, May 17, 2012, 11:00 a.m. at Mt. Sinai AME Church with burial in the church cemetery. Collins Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.

The second annual Teenage Pregnancy Prevention Walk-a-Thon sponsored by Camden First United Methodist Women will be held Saturday, beginning at Camden First United Methodist Church, 704 W. DeKalb St., Camden.

Following a regular season in which more than just a few school records fell by the wayside, the North central High School track and field program returned from Saturday's class A state championship meet with a pair of top 15 finishes from the boys' and girls' teams.

Hudson River Stables' Arcadius made a strong move on the final turn of Nashville's Percy Warner Park and repelled Bill Pape's Divine Fortune to win the $150,000 Calvin Houghland Iroquois (Gr. 1) by a length on Saturday, May 12.